Manuela Veloso who has been building robots for the military to operate with artificial intelligence is moving towards robots that could do manual labor. No word on whether the senate is working on a path to citizenship for robots…

“I have a hard time even inventing what humans need teams for other than sports,” says Veloso, though she is actually full of examples. Teams of robots, she says, could wage war, execute dangerous search and rescue operations, pick produce in the most efficient way, explore other planets, or even play games against teams of humans just for fun.